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Blogroll Page for WordPress

Over time, your WordPress blog accumulates blogroll links that limitting a fixed amount of links to show on your blog becomes your last option. If you want to share more link love to your co-bloggers, why not use a blogroll page instead?

Easier said than done, I tried looking for a widget for this purpose and found the Blogroll page widget but it wasn’t quite showing what I wanted:

Test Blogroll page

Doesn’t look very appealing right?

  1. Using the theme editor, open up your current theme look for your Page Template file

    Theme Editor

  2. Copy paste the contents of the Page Template file to your text editor
  3. Add this to the top of the file:
  4. Look for a php tag with “the_content”. It may look like this:

    and replace it with this:

    note that you can use any argument you want. Read up on wp_list_bookmarks via the WordPress Codex
  5. Save the file to any .php name and upload it to your current theme folder
  6. Go to Write Page on your WordPress install and if you did everything right, you should find this:

    Page Template

  7. Choose a page title, select the template and add any other content you want. If you’re curious as to how it looks, check out my page here.

There you have it

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  1. 638ways 638ways February 8, 2008 Reply

    Thanks for this. I’ve been trying to do this for ages and ages!! So simple 😀

    638ways’s last blog post..Starting Somewhere

  2. atmaxplorer sylv3rblade February 8, 2008 Reply

    Glad I could be of help ^^

  3. allen Prim3 February 11, 2008 Reply

    The blogroll page plugin can’t separate the links by categories but your method can..

    Thanks for your guide.. You’re the greatest! 😀

    Prim3’s last blog post..Wa Bo Eng (I am not free!)

  4. atmaxplorer sylv3rblade February 11, 2008 Reply

    No prob hehe.

  5. bigfuz Fuz December 16, 2008 Reply

    Like a charm, thanks!

  6. tygern8r tygern8r January 22, 2009 Reply

    You rock! I’ve been working on this for a couple days now. All the plugins I’ve found don’t work on 2.7, but this works great! Thanks!

  7. marie.casas Marie March 25, 2009 Reply

    That was straightforward. So glad I didn’t have to install another plugin. Thanks so much.

    Marie´s last entry was: Girl’s Guide to Building a Million Dollar Business – Book Review

  8. grouperkun Snow Fox Creations April 3, 2009 Reply

    Thank you so much for this tutorial. It was just what I needed. :3

  9. bizadventure Biz April 4, 2009 Reply

    WOW! That was totally easy!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH! Just perfect.

  10. kellyapproved Kelly May 27, 2009 Reply

    My blogroll is so large that not only do I want it on it’s own page, but I’d like to break it down into two columns.

    Would you have any tips on how to do that?

    • atmaxplorer sylv3rblade September 1, 2009 Reply

      You can do this in 2 ways:

      1. Use the parameters for wp_list_bookmarks to display half of your blogroll links on one side and the other half on the next side. This may need some tinkering.

      2. Use CSS.

  11. steve.bergkamp Steve Bergkamp October 24, 2009 Reply

    Stephen, Nice post. Worked mostly the way I expected it. Nice and quick.

    I wanted to pull links from the posts I have created, and list them on my links page.

    I am wondering if you know how to do this ?

    I like your site. You sound a lot like me.

    Thanks again for the tip. Works great.

    Steve B.

    • atmaxplorer sylv3rblade October 24, 2009 Reply

      Hmm.. sounds like you need to use one of the plugins that I’m using for this site.
      Download and install the Internal Link Building plugin: http://seoroi.com/specialty-services/new-seo-plugin-for-wordpress-internal-link-building
      To use it, you can specify keywords that will automatically get linked to posts you specify. i.e. if I have specified Free PSP Games and linked it to http://www.isosandroms.com, everything I use Free PSP Games on any post, it will automatically get linked.
      Now To get the feature that you’re looking for, just iterate the links you have created (just look into how the plugin works) onto your theme directly or via the functions.php.

      I’m sure there are other ways to do this much more cleanly but I sure hope it helps.

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